Iratxe is Director of Strategic Initiatives and Community for ASAPbio. In her role Iratxe works to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, Iratxe also coordinates the ASAPbio Fellows program. Prior to ASAPbio, Iratxe worked in publishing for 16 years, she held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE.

Iratxe is also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and co-lead of the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group.